Title: Bureaucracy, politics, and decision making in post-Mao ChinaAuthor: Lieberthal, KennethPublished: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: Politics | ChinaPublisher's Description: Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering amo . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: From revolutionary cadres to party technocrats in socialist ChinaAuthor: Lee, Hong Yung 1939-Published: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: Politics | ChinaPublisher's Description: Using a wide variety of sources previously unavailable, Hong Yung Lee offers for the first time a theoretical and historical perspective on China's ruling elite, examining their politics and the bureaucratic system in which they participate. He traces the evolution of these cadres from the guerrilla . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Voices of the song lyric in China/Author: Yu, Pauline 1949-Published: University of California Press, 1994Subjects: Literature | ChinaPublisher's Description: This collection is the first comprehensive treatment of the song lyric ( tz'u ) in China from its origins through the nineteenth century. Engaging issues of form, language, voice, and transmission, these essays explore the changing and frequently problematic situation of the tz'u over centuries of l . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Chinese families in the post-Mao eraAuthor: Davis, Deborah 1945-Published: University of California Press, 1993Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | ChinaPublisher's Description: How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and anthropologist . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Brushes with power: modern politics and the Chinese art of calligraphyAuthor: Kraus, Richard CurtPublished: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: Politics | China | ArtPublisher's Description: Chinese calligraphy has traditionally been an emblem of the ruling class and its authority. After a century of mass revolution, what is the fate of this elite art? Richard Kraus explores the relationship beween politics and the art of writing in China today to explicate the complex relationship betw . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Sources of Western Zhou history: inscribed bronze vesselsAuthor: Shaughnessy, Edward L 1952-Published: University of California Press, 1992Subjects: History | China | ArchaeologyPublisher's Description: The thousands of ritual bronze vessels discovered by China's archaeologists serve as the major documentary source for the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.). These vessels contain long inscriptions full of detail on subjects as diverse as the military history of the period, the bureaucratic struct . . . [more]Similar Items